Quotation Quotations

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

I would say that in my 21 years, the number of those schools has quadrupled, and I would put schools in quotation marks. They're not all academic institutions.

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word, won. That's pretty much the full argument: Restate a factual proposition with sneering quote marks.

We're seeing a combination of concerns over the Bank of Japan and feedback from the futures side ahead of special quotation day weakening the market.

We have experienced a system problem this morning related to a software change to accommodate the extension of our trade reporting and quotation system.

QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me! --Stumpo Gaker

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

There is no way you can use the word “reality” without quotation marks around it.